hey guys what's up I'm Daniel and welcome to DLM model lifestyle where we give
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anything new and in this video we're gonna talk about how to look good in
photos for men and we're starting right now
alright so there's a couple of tips that you can do to take better photos now
number one is the light the light is the most important thing when it comes
to taking photos like right now I'm standing in front of a big window right
so the light comes in everything is clear but let me turn the camera around
and you see how it looks if I turn around focus on my face you see how
that's that just looks look terrible right even if I turn it to the side you
can see the light coming in here but then this side is very dark so when
you're indoor stand in front of the window where the light is better now if
you're outdoor it's better to try and take the photos in the shade because the
sunlight is not so strong in your face and the light is a lot better you never
take photos in direct sunlight because you'll get all these kind of shadows
here and in your face and that really looks terrible so what you want to do is
take photos when the Sun is at the back of your head and not in front the second
tip is grooming and style with the right grooming and the right styling it's
just a little bit of effort but you can look so much better in photos tip number
three is your posture and the angles together what do I mean
well it depends
on if you're a bigger guy and got a lot of muscles or if you're slim and skinny
right if you're bigger you want to have this posture of really bringing these
shoulders a little bit back standing up straight and just looking a lot better
with your posing your face and your shoulders and your chest everything goes
together they work together as a team so it's really good to look straight into
the camera but also the angles of your face look a little bit down a
little bit or a little bit up especially if you look
far away all right but if you're a skinny guy what you want to do is you
can move a lot more than the bigger guys and you won't look strange but what I
mean is you can change and play with the angles right you can stand like this and
you can walk you can do a lot more because you won't to look so weird you
can tilt a little bit back with your back and look at the camera and look
there and you can try all these kind of interesting and different angles you can
even bring the hands up you can play around and you can do everything that's
kind of weird and interesting and fits in with you a lot more it's a little bit
more closer to high fashion modeling where it's more interesting right now
the angles of your body is always like 45 to the camera and 45 left right if
you missed my video for male model poses for beginners go check it out so you can
learn about these angles and then for your face if you look straight to the
camera sometimes it's better to tilt your head a little bit down like that
and to the side - like that or this way but play around with the angles see what
works best with your face type and your body type that's something that you have
to do and I cannot explain to you how to do that just play around and see what
works and that takes us to the fourth tip facial expressions some guys look
good by being very friendly and smiley and everything is just all good right
and some guys look better when they are more serious right
but even though you have these expressions there's a lot that you can
do with your eyes so I'm gonna do some of these expressions let's start with
the basic ones where it's kind of the the cool look right so what you want to
think about while you do this pose is just think about something that looks
really cool or I don't know use your imagination right so you look somewhere
and you're more serious right but now you play up your eyes so you make your
eyes stronger so you do this you see the difference in how your eye look right so
you can play around with your eyes a lot to give a better impression
if you look friendly you do the same thing you just smile a little bit and
look at the camera but don't always look at the camera look away a little bit you
know and just be friendly and think about things that make you happy that's
how you have these facial expressions that are natural because it is how you
are really like right that's what you want to do it
so look somewhere think
about things that make you happy even if that's food for me sometimes I think
about my family that I miss back home because doing modeling you have to
travel a lot in foreign countries and I don't see my family a lot so I think about them
sometimes and it makes me happy right being happy never goes out of style
but use the expressions that works the best with you with your face type with
your kind of look alright alright my fifth tip is editing you can edit your
pictures to make it look a little bit better you know use apps like afterlight and
facetune and those kind of stuff just donwload the app
and you can edit it but don't go
just crazy you know it needs to look natural I mean there's a lot of fake
stuff out there that's just fake you know and people trying to be someone who
they're not and you don't want people to like your photos or like your picture
but it doesn't even look like you alright so keep it nice keep it natural
so I would only use it if I'm at a very dark place and how it looks on the phone
is not how it looks in real life right so I would edit it so that it looks
natural that's what you want to do especially on Instagram there are these
people who edit everything they make their butts bigger they make their
shoulders bigger they just go crazy and so you never know what is real
on Instagram anymore don't do that people want things that are real there's
too many fake stuff people like things that are real that is true so
focus on that alright let's go to tip number six if someone else is taking the
picture ask them to count it down you know
because sometimes there's someone who wants to take the picture and you guys
are ready and they did your standing and visit the focusing and they're just
figuring it out but everybody is waiting and they have their facial expressions ready
and then with time you lose your facial expression it it's like you know those
pageants when the girls start out and they smile and it looks nice and natural
right but after a while they've been walking on the stage for a while they
get tired so you can see when the natural drops to being abnormal and
weird right so is natural smiling and then it's this kind of weird face so
that is what happens if you don't ask someone to tell you the exact moment
when they take the picture so when they take the picture they have to say okay
one two three done my seventh tip is the background the background is so
important it needs to fit in with your style right so let's say the background
here is more corporate right so if I put on this kind of jacket it looks better
because now it fits in right so if I take a photo in here it will be okay
right if I just change the angle a little bit so if I would stand here
with the jacket and with the background it'll be a lot better so so you can just
play around with the expressions and you can take the photo so the background is
very important sometimes you want an interesting background because it shows
people who you are and your personality it's not just boring and fake so you can
walk in the street or you can walk in the road and take
photos as well especially if you're in a different country here the Sun is the
best see here it's terrible sometimes a clean clear background
like this is also cool all right my eighth tip is be natural just be normal
be you all right oh my goodness I cannot say that more
I've seen some of the YouTube videos and they some of these poses it's just it
looks so fake and unnatural even when the people are walking is like weird
kind of strange walk where they fake it and then they look so stiff what you
want to do is just be who you really are in real life and take that shot nothing
is better
so if you just stand you know stand and smile and take the picture if you walk
somewhere you look do it the way you would really do it
don't be too stressed about being perfect and having the perfect shot and
there's people who are so obsessed with it it's like crazy so when you take
photos don't just take photos of you all the time just selfies just you you you you
because for other people you look like you're obsessed of
yourself so take photos with people show the background show where you are what
are you doing what's going on in your life make it more interesting there are
millions of people out there that take selfies and photos of themselves every
day right but what makes you different from everybody else it is your life it's
your story because you are unique and there's nobody else out there like you
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